Morgan Freeman is a
well known actor, both on and off the big screen, and has been conscripted to
narrate numerous documentary films.

What’s not often known
about him is that he’s an activist for justice and the environment.

He even converted his
124 acre Mississippi ranch into a bee farm and sanctuary in response to
dwindling pollinator populations.

Freeman is also known
for activism regarding cannabis, once saying in an interview with the Guardian,
“Never give up the Ganja.”

That line set him
apart from many actors. It became clear that Freeman both enjoyed and advocated
for cannabis and he clearly hasn’t stopped since.

Recently, the Daily
Beast met up with Morgan Freeman to talk about an upcoming film, but the
direction of the conversation changed to the topic of cannabis.

In it, Freeman talks
about his appreciation of cannabis as well as the current movement to legalize.
This is what he had to say. From The Daily Beast:

I ask him about his
stance on the legalization of marijuana, since he’s a longtime user. “They used
to say, ‘You smoke that stuff, boy, you get hooked!” says a chuckling Freeman.

“My first wife got me
into it many years ago. How do I take it? However it comes! I’ll eat it, drink
it, smoke it, snort it!

This movement is
really a long time coming, and it’s getting legs—longer legs. Now, the thrust
is understanding that alcohol has no real medicinal use.

Maybe if you have one
drink it’ll quiet you down, but two or three and you’re fucked.” He pauses, and
points to the glove-aid jutting out from his left suit sleeve. “Marijuana has
many useful uses,” he says.

“I have fibromyalgia
pain in this arm, and the only thing that offers any relief is marijuana.

They’re talking about
kids who have grand mal seizures, and they’ve discovered that marijuana eases
that down to where these children can have a life.

That right there, to
me, says, ‘Legalize it across the board!'”

“And what negative
effects does it have?” Freeman continues. “Look at Woodstock 1969.

They said, ‘We’re not
going to bother them or say anything about smoking marijuana,’ and not one
problem or fight.

Then look at what
happened in ’99,” he says, referencing the less marijuana-friendly
30th-anniversary event, which resulted in riots and arrests.